"Global Warming" Irony...
These were really too much to pass up...
Cold, rain cuts short global warming rally
More than two dozen demonstrators braved cold, wet weather Saturday in Reno to attend a rally designed to draw attention to global warming.
The event was cut short by heavy rain and sleet, said organizer Lisa Stiller of the Northern Nevada Coalition for Climate Change.
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A regional rally for a global problem
WILMINGTON -- A mix of snow and fog at the foot of the Whiteface Mountain toll road made it a white-on-white world Saturday as 15 people -- and two dogs -- started the 2,500-foot ascent to the top.
The group was skiing up the state's fifth-highest peak -- which was wrapped in early spring snow -- to call attention to the damage that global warming could bring to the Adirondacks.
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Something just tells me that their message isn't coming across... and the second one seems to imply that snow at the bottom of the mountains is a sign that global warming is disrupting snow at the top of the mountain (someone will have to explain that to me one day) and that the winter temperature on the mountain has risen since 1970 but that the current snow load is a "normal occurrence". So which is it? Has global warming destroyed the Adirondacks or was there just a few bad years three decades ago and things are back to "normal" occurrences?
Cold, rain cuts short global warming rally
More than two dozen demonstrators braved cold, wet weather Saturday in Reno to attend a rally designed to draw attention to global warming.
The event was cut short by heavy rain and sleet, said organizer Lisa Stiller of the Northern Nevada Coalition for Climate Change.
( Read more... )
A regional rally for a global problem
WILMINGTON -- A mix of snow and fog at the foot of the Whiteface Mountain toll road made it a white-on-white world Saturday as 15 people -- and two dogs -- started the 2,500-foot ascent to the top.
The group was skiing up the state's fifth-highest peak -- which was wrapped in early spring snow -- to call attention to the damage that global warming could bring to the Adirondacks.
( Read more... )
Something just tells me that their message isn't coming across... and the second one seems to imply that snow at the bottom of the mountains is a sign that global warming is disrupting snow at the top of the mountain (someone will have to explain that to me one day) and that the winter temperature on the mountain has risen since 1970 but that the current snow load is a "normal occurrence". So which is it? Has global warming destroyed the Adirondacks or was there just a few bad years three decades ago and things are back to "normal" occurrences?